Lord Acton Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Liberty, Morality

• The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

  Lord Acton

  Rights, Government, Class

  "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.
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  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

• Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

  Lord Acton

  Morality, Corruption

• The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

  Lord Acton

  Democracy, Vices, Morality

• I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Suffering, Trying

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.22, VM eBooks

• Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Evil, Sacred

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